sion to the natural laws and the practice of natural morality as indispensable to the welfare of mankind at large, and that all social institutions ought to be founded on this natural morality, which has been, is, and will ever be, invariable. Individually I call those happy who enjoy good health and without difficulty subject their animal nature to the faculties proper to man; who, for instance, are satisfied with such things as are merely necessary-with their daily bread; who desire not superfluities, luxuries, riches, or distinctions; who taste of all pleasures in moderation, enjoying every thing, but abusing nothing; who cultivate art or science for the delights it affords; who in every situation do their duty, and who stand not in need of others or foreign aid, to satisfy their active faculties. Unhappy, on the other hand, are almost all who look for their personal well-being in things which are opposed to natural morality; who have many and active faculties, the satisfaction of which depends on others; whose inferior faculties, in short, are the most energetic, especially if they injure the health, and if their indulgence be expensive.

SECTION VIII.

Explanation of different Philosophical Expressions. Nothing is more vague than the language of philosophy. Many expressions have several significations, and almost every term in use has been invented to designate actions, and not the faculties which produce them. To make this difference felt I shall collect several of the most common words, and in one column give their usual signification, in another their explanation according to the fundamental faculties, referring the reader to the pas sages either in the physiological or in the philosophical part of this work, in which the terms as they occur are more particularly explained.

A tribute paid by individuals to It is an affection of the sense of

Great desire of preferment and An effect of great activity of the

Anger.

Uneasiness upon a receipt of A violent emotion with an incli

Heat, or eagerness in action. Great activity of every funda

Art.

Attention.

Application of the mind to any The result of the individual in

Attrition.

Grief of sin arising from the A disagreeable affection of the

Credit given to something which Hope disposes to belief; hope

Common Significations.

Explanation according to the Faculties.

Conscience.

The faculty by which we judge A mode of action of conscien